when DID this becomer more attractive?!?! (pic.....i hope)

Id like to be thin, but not a bag of bones, healthy, not ill.

I really hate these types of threads, and the comments that "men like woman with curves", or "real women have curves". I'm a real women but I don't have any curves. I have no boobs and a small butt, so does that mean I'm not a real women or that no man is every attracted to me? I think it's about time that everyone stop bashing on people whether their skinny or heavier, and just learn to accept that everbody is a different shape or size.

Amen to that!

I don't think it's necessary or appropriate to demonize anyone's body type in order to promote other people feeling good about themselves. Thin people, plump people, and people in between can be beautiful and sexy. There's no need to criticize the women in the top row in order to say that the women in the bottom row are beautiful. Furthermore, most people would be better off spending less time worrying about what other people think is sexy, and more time worrying about what they want and what will be healthy for their body.

Some people are fatter than is healthy and some people are skinnier than is healthy...both groups of people could use the support of loved ones and could benefit from healthier eating...but neither group of people needs to be mocked or criticized.

I think it is sad that some women think that they have to be that thin, I think the pressure on famous women must be overwhelming. I bet the thin women on the top row are very strong, they do have muscle and I bet they spend a lot of time exercising. I know for a fact that Marilyn Monroe lifted weights, I have a few pictures of her doing so. They are all beautiful in their own way, with their own unique bodies. I respect any woman that does her best to be healthy and beautiful. : )

Getting soooo sick of these threads.

+1

Why do so many people have to whine about skinny girls being skinny?

If the shoe was on the other foot and people were bashing the size 10's for being overweight, then there'd be so much flaming my computer would melt.

Get over it people.

Great post! Thanks for sharing that beauty is looking like a woman, not a skeleton! :flowerforyou:

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I agree with Kiera statement. If your naturally thin and healthy its all good. Also women like Kelly Rowland, she's a size 2 but she doesnt look sickly and you can tell she works out to get that body. But if your forcing yourself to be an unhealthy weight, have ribs showing, and look like your starving thats a no go.

AGAIN I STATE:
I did NOT make this photo (couldn't if i wanted too) its the message it sends. A lot of women starve themselves into eating disorders trying to look like the top row of women instead of embracing that maybe their body wasn't meant to look that way. Keira Knighlt I'll admit does look good, though :P

You don't have to "starve yourself" to be as thin as the girls on the top row. Losing weight continues as long as you eat under maintenance, so you can eat sensibly and still reach size 2 if you want. My ex-best friend has never been above a size 4 in her life and looks very much like the girls in the top row, but she eats 3 large meals a day. She's been called names like "anorexic" all her life...simply for being naturally thin and not overeating??? WTF.

But I digress. I shouldn't have even read this thread...it just proves that a lot of women can't get beyond their cattiness to accept that some people are thinner than others without having eating disorders...

Its generally not more attractive to heterosexual men. Women just spend too much time listening to other women and to the fashion industry...who spend a lot of time giving women images of what they seem to want.

Men's magazines give men what THEY say they want. And yes, while still veering on the unrealistic side (just try to find big hips, a round, pert butt, big boobs, WITH a concave stomach and a teeny tiny waist on the same woman in nature. Just try!), the women on those pages are certainly not stick-thin!

And while I don't think its necessary to bash thin women (I don't think its ever appropriate to say someone "looks disgusting" or "sick" or "unattractive." Civility is required for civilized discourse!), I also think the 'some women are just naturally skinny" meme is a bit disingenuous. There are very few 5'8" women who are "naturally" a size 0 past puberty. I find it fascinating that after all those 'naturally thin" supermodels retire, they magically rise a size or two (or 3, or 4, or 6) past their natural and effortless thin-ness. They later confess that it wasn't so natural to maintain after the age of 18 or 19, and that their inability to maintain that ideal, rather than just age, is often why they retire. Do some women have a more streamlined silhouette than others? Sure. But what we see in magazines is not simply the result of genetic diversity.

Those women exercise alot and keep very rigid eating regimes. Not because they have eating disorders or hate their bodies, but because they want to keep getting jobs. To be in movies and magazines that WE buy. (And wouldn't buy if they were less thin. Who wants to see folks that look like the neighbor girl?) And, truthfully, if they are not ill, I don't see anything wrong with that. Elite athletes do the same. But most of us are smart enough to recognize this, and to admire the discipline of elite athletes, without believing that taking up jogging after work will achieve the same result.

I'm glad you posted this! I saw it on Facebook yesterday and was going to post it myself it helps us keep things in perspective!

I love this post. . I have curves and embrace them. I want to lose some weight, but I by no means ever plan on looking like a twig. Being underweight can be just as dangerous and unhealthy as being overweight.:bigsmile:

While vacationing in Hawaii, I was once told, "No man likes to lie down with a 2x4, that's why he's gotta go out and buy her fake boobies." Natural curves are gorgeous!

AGAIN I STATE:
I did NOT make this photo (couldn't if i wanted too) its the message it sends. A lot of women starve themselves into eating disorders trying to look like the top row of women instead of embracing that maybe their body wasn't meant to look that way. Keira Knighlt I'll admit does look good, though :P

The image's message is meant to shame those who either have disordered eating or are naturally skinny.

No where in that image or the image's message did I see anything that would actually HELP people with ED's help recover.

It's just body shaming.

Getting soooo sick of these threads.

+1

Why do so many people have to whine about skinny girls being skinny?

If the shoe was on the other foot and people were bashing the size 10's for being overweight, then there'd be so much flaming my computer would melt.

Get over it people.

+100

The women on the bottom are gorgeous!

the women on the top are sick with their droopy-skin and bones.

I don't see any droopy skin in the top row. I do see Kiera with a six pack though... well maybe a four pack. She looks fit not sickly.